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Brenda Benet is known for:

  • Walking Tall
    Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when he is a victim of it and decides to strike back by running against the corrupt sheriff. And he wins and wages his own little war against them
  • Beach Ball
    Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
  • The Horror at 37,000 Feet
    A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas.

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Biography

Brenda Benet (born Brenda Ann Nelson; August 14, 1945 – April 7, 1982) was an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the soap operas The Young Marrieds (1965–1965) and Days of Our Lives (1979–1982). She was also featured in an episode of Hogan's Heroes in 1970. Her first acting roles were in 1964, with appearances on Shindig! and The Young Marrieds. She eventually became an actress very much in demand for roles in episodic primetime television in the 1960s and 1970s, including I Dream of Jeannie; McHale's Navy; Daniel Boone; Mannix; The Green Hornet (TV series); My Three Sons; Hogan's Heroes; Love, American Style; Wonder Woman; The Love Boat and The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She also had a major role in the feature film Walking Tall (1973).